The housing market in London continued to outdo the rest of the country over the past year, with prices jumping by more than 6 per cent.

This is in stark contrast to the North East, where the average price of a home tumbled by 5.7 per cent to £95,546 in the year to April.

The Land Registry figures showed that an average home in London now costs £375,795, compared with an average of £161,458 in the rest of England and Wales. Prices in Kensington and Chelsea surged by 9.8 per cent to £1.24 million, and those in Camden jumped 11.8